Separating Residents' Inpatient and Outpatient Responsibilities: Improving Patient Safety, Learning Environments, and Relationships With Continuity Patients

摘要

Problem Current regulations for internal medicine residency programs require scheduling that minimizes conflict between inpatient and outpatient responsibilities. To meet these regulations, the internal medicine residency program at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center implemented a unique scheduling modelthe Alternating Call and Elective Scheduling (ACES) modelin July 2009.